Example sentences of "[pers pn] has take [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Needless to say she has to take life as quietly as possible for some time if she is to regain her health and everyone will be pleased to know she is making good progress along these lines .
2 She has to take account of the views of society at large .
3 She has taken part in gymnastics and movement classes since the age of eight ; saw Medau demonstrated at Bedford College in 1951 and became ‘ hooked ’ .
4 The cashier should give a receipt to the receptionist that he or she has taken charge of the money .
5 She has taken care not to touch any of these totally unentrepreneurial perks .
6 She has taken Diana to Covent Garden on innumerable occasions in the last few years .
7 Nevertheless he has taken offence .
8 He has taken things that belong to us .
9 Robert Maxwell has deployed this tactic with considerable success to limit the circulation of several books about him to which he has taken exception .
10 My own confessor would absolve you , but he has taken alms and clothing to the hospital and , if I know Father Selwyn , will no doubt spend some time there , helping out … ’
11 By choosing to take at face value all the evidence pointing to the futility of the war , and ignoring all those who believed , with patent sincerity , that they were fighting for something worthwhile against something evil , he has taken cynicism to the point of naivety .
12 He has taken Britain into negative growth , rising unemployment and falling output .
13 Hardenberger also recalls that the BBC PO 's York performance of Endless Parade — a work so difficult in its string scoring that two or three other orchestras have actually refused to play it with him — is the best he has taken part in so far .
14 Recently he has taken part in an advertisement for Skol ( amongst others ) and will be appearing in Howard 's Way , in , as he modestly called it , ‘ a walk on part . ’
15 He has taken pupils to America where there are lots of Quaker schools .
16 In the 13 years since Montague broke away from Cables Montague , his father 's trucking company , he has taken Tiphook to pole position in the European container leasing business — a complementary , and vastly bigger , business than trailer leasing — and to second place in the world market behind General Electric subsidiary Genstar .
17 He has taken Serafin 's measure and knows that he is on top of the situation .
18 But all that we are requiring of him is that , widening his viewpoint from himself to the community , he has taken account of the communal effects of theft , before , as himself not the weigher but the balance , he allows himself finally to settle against or in favour of taking the money .
19 admits he has taken risks to make progress .
20 The applicant is required to certify that he has taken nature conservation into account when implementing his scheme , even though the average farmer can not be expected to be capable of assessing such impacts .
21 He has taken steps to help resolve the financial difficulties and hopes to return to a normal trading position in due course .
22 He has taken steps to alleviate the problem of attitude but it is n't always easy to strike the right balance .
23 On the other hand , the jury can be asked to take the plaintiff 's own conduct into account in reducing damages — if he has taken steps to refute the allegations publicly , or has been cleared of them after a publicised enquiry , or has obtained retractions and damages from other publications , his wounds may be considered to have partially healed .
24 I offer the Minister the NFU 's five-point agenda , of which I hope he has taken note .
25 In that case , it has to take responsibility for allocating all foreign exchange to the users by administrative methods .
26 It has to take powers to intervene in family life and take into care children who are being neglected or badly treated .
27 Dieting without exercise also forces the body to manage on less oxygen , and it reduces its oxygen intake even further when it has to take energy , not from food , but from the body itself .
28 Speaking after delivering an emotional tribute to his party workers , he said : ‘ There 's a great deal of serious reflection that has to go on in the opposition parties , but I 've no doubt that most of the reflection has to take place within Labour and it has to take place on the subject of PR .
29 Speaking after delivering an emotional tribute to his party workers , he said : ‘ There 's a great deal of serious reflection that has to go on in the opposition parties , but I 've no doubt that most of the reflection has to take place within Labour and it has to take place on the subject of PR .
30 There are over 7,200 drawings extant and it has taken Claudie Judrin ten years to complete the task .
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